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Northern Styrian Alps

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Country
  
Austria

Elevation
  
2,369 m

Type of rock
  
Sedimentary rock

Orogeny
  
Alpine orogeny

Peak
  
Hochtor

Parent range
  
Alps

Northern Styrian Alps

States of Austria
  
Styria, Upper Austria and Lower Austria

Borders on
  
Styrian Prealps, Eastern Tauern Alps, Salzkammergut and Upper Austria Alps and Northern Lower Austria Alps

The Northern Styrian Alps (Steirische Nordalpen in German) is the proposed name for a subdivision of mountain ranges in a new, as yet unadopted, classification of the Alps, located in Austria.

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GeographyEdit

Administratively the range belongs to the Austrian state of Styria and, marginally, to Upper Austria and Lower Austria. The whole range is drained by the Danube river.

SOIUSA classificationEdit

According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way:

  • main part = Eastern Alps
  • major sector = Northern Limestone Alps
  • section = Northern Styrian Alps
  • code = II/B-26

    • SubdivisionEdit

    The range is divided in two Alpine subsections:

  • Ennstal Alps - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I;
  • North-eastern Styrian Alps - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II;

    • These subsections are further subdivided in supergroups as it follows:

  • Ennstal Alps:
  • supergroup Haller Mauern - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I-A,
  • supergroup Gesäuse - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I-B,
  • supergroup Eisenerzer Alpen - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I-C.
  • North-eastern Styrian Alps:
  • supergroup Hochschwabgruppe - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II-A,
  • supergroup Mürzsteger Alpen - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II-B,
  • supergroup Rax-Schneeberg-Gruppe - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II-C.

    • Notable summitsEdit

    Some notable summits of the range are:

    References

    Northern Styrian Alps Wikipedia
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